| A filmmaker who made a documentary on the life and times of Olive Riley says he will sorely miss the woman who is known as the world's oldest blogger. She died in a nursing home on the New South Wales central coast at the weekend, aged 108.
Born in Broken Hill in 1899, Olive Riley returned in 2004 for the filming of the documentary.
Since early last year, she had written about 70 entries on her life experiences and posted them online, receiving feedback from all over the world.
Documentary maker Mike Rubbo says the idea for blogging came from another older friend who had taken it up.
"He suggested that Ollie could blog so we put it to her and explained what a blog was and then I undertook to do all the sort of leg work, it was great fun and it was great too to probe her memory more deeply and you get evermore stories about her past, many of which of course were set in Broken Hill," he said.
From ABC News
Posted Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:40pm AEST
Updated Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:54pm AEST
Video: Watch Joe O'Brien's report from Olive Riley's last birthday celebration. (ABC News)
Audio: Filmmaker Mike Rubbo on ABC Broken Hill discusses the life of the world's oldest blogger Olive Riley. (ABC News) | 
